GRDzhadzha is an open-source code for relativistic simulations of matter
fields on curved spacetimes that admit an analytic description (e.g. stationary
black holes). It is based on the publicly available 3+1D numerical relativity
code GRChombo. Such a description is valid where the density of the matter is
small compared to the curvature scale of the spacetime, which is the case for
many physical scenarios - for example, dark matter environments. The approach
offers significant savings on memory and speed compared to running full
numerical relativity simulations, since the metric variables and their
derivatives are calculated analytically, and therefore are not evolved or
stored on the grid. This brief paper introduces the code and gives details of
some applications for which it has already been used.Comment: Submitted for review in the Journal of Open Source Software; Comments
welcome; The code can be found at https://github.com/GRChombo/GRDzhadzha.gi